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      Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II

      James A. W. Heffernan

      Mining the borderlands where history meets literature in Britain and Europe as well as America, this book shows how the imminence and outbreak of World War II ignited the imaginations…

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      Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II

      James A. W. Heffernan

      Mining the borderlands where history meets literature in Britain and Europe as well as America, this book shows how the imminence and outbreak of World War II ignited the imaginations…

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      Cultivating Picturacy: Visual Art and Verbal Interventions

      James A. W. Heffernan

      Though English has no word for the visual counterpart to literacy, Heffernan argues that the capacity to interpret pictures must be cultivated and deserves a name: picturacy. Using a range…

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      The Re-creation of Landscape

      James A. W. Heffernan

      Compares the common concerns and impulses behind the works of four artists and writers, and demonstrates that the verbal and visual sides of romanticism are parts of a coherent whole.

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      Hospitality and Treachery in Western Literature

      James A. W. Heffernan

      In works of Western literature ranging from Homer’s Odyssey to Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? This book traces this leitmotiv through the history of our greatest writings, including Christ’s…

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      Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II

      James A. W. Heffernan (Dartmouth College, USA)

      Mining the borderlands where history meets literature in Britain and Europe as well as America, this book shows how the imminence and outbreak of World War II ignited the imaginations…

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      Representing the French Revolution

      James A.W. Heffernan

      Fourteen essays examine how the French Revolution has been represented in art, literature, and historical narratives from England, France, Germany, and the Caribbean.

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      Museum of Words

      James A.W. Heffernan

      Ekphrasis is the art of describing works of art. Heffernan explores this ambivalent poetry, which simultaneously celebrates the power of the silent image while circumscribing that power with the authority…

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      Christianity and Civil Society: Catholic and Neo-Calvinist Perspectives

      Addresses the crisis of modern democracy evident in the decline of the institutions of civil society. Drawing upon social and political reflection found in the Catholic and Neo-Calvinist traditions, it…

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